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Hiring Velocity Signals

One signal that captures a company's full hiring picture: open roles as a percentage of headcount, 30/60/90-day acceleration trends, and department, location, and seniority breakdowns across 21M+ companies.

21M+

Companies Covered

30/60/90 days

Trend Windows

Weekly

Refresh Cadence

Accelerating / Steady / Decelerating

Classification

Workforce Intelligence1 subtypes · Weekly refresh

What Are Hiring Velocity Signals?

Hiring velocity measures how aggressively a company is hiring relative to its size. Autobound computes open roles as a percentage of current headcount across 21M+ companies, then compares roles opened in the last 30 days against the prior 30 and 60 days to classify each company as accelerating, steady, or decelerating.

Each signal breaks hiring down by department, location, and seniority, so you can see whether growth means 50 engineers in Austin or 200 seasonal retail hires. A 40-person company with 12 open roles (30% of headcount) is in hyper-growth even though the absolute number looks small. Signals refresh weekly.

Example Signal Subtypes

hiringVelocity

Data Schema

Hiring Velocity Signal Schema

Velocity signals include multi-window trend analysis, department and seniority breakdowns, and acceleration/deceleration classification.

hiring_velocity.schema.json
{
  "signal_id": "3b8e5d40-91c7-4f2a-b6d3-8a04e7c15f92",
  "signal_type": "hiring-velocity",
  "signal_subtype": "hiringVelocity",
  "detected_at": "2026-07-12T11: 00: 06Z",
  "association": "company",
  "company": {
    "name": "Clay",
    "domain": "clay.com",  // match on domain
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/company/clay-hq",  // or match on LinkedIn URL
    "industries": ["Software Development"],
    "employee_count_low": 201,
    "employee_count_high": 500
  },
  "data": {
    "takeaway": "Hiring velocity: Aggressive. 34 open roles against 210 employees (16.2% of headcount), with hiring accelerating over the last 30 days.",
    "numberOfEmployees": 210,
    "numberOfOpenRoles": 34,
    "hiringVelocityPct": 16.2,
    "historicalComparison": {
      "rolesOpenedLast30d": 19,
      "rolesOpenedPrev30d": 9,
      "rolesOpenedPrev60d": 6,
      "trend": "accelerating"
    },
    "departments": [
      { "category": "engineering", "count": 14, "pct": 41.2 },
      { "category": "sales", "count": 9, "pct": 26.5 },
      { "category": "marketing", "count": 5, "pct": 14.7 },
      { "category": "operations", "count": 4, "pct": 11.8 }
    ],
    "locations": [
      { "category": "New York, New York, United States", "count": 16, "pct": 47.1 },
      { "category": "San Francisco, California, United States", "count": 8, "pct": 23.5 },
      { "category": "Remote", "count": 7, "pct": 20.6 }
    ],
    "seniority": [
      { "category": "non_manager", "count": 22, "pct": 64.7 },
      { "category": "manager", "count": 8, "pct": 23.5 },
      { "category": "director", "count": 3, "pct": 8.8 }
    ]
  }
}
GCS Bucket
gs://autobound-hiring-velocity-v1/
Formats
JSONL · Parquet
Refresh
Weekly

Applications

What teams build with Hiring Velocity Signals

04 documented applications

  1. 01

    Surge-Based Account Targeting

    Focus outreach on companies with accelerating hiring velocity. These organizations are in build mode and making fast purchasing decisions to support their growing teams.

  2. 02

    Competitive Landscape Monitoring

    Track hiring velocity for companies in your market segment to identify competitive threats. A competitor doubling its engineering team may be preparing a product expansion.

  3. 03

    Market Timing for New Products

    Aggregate hiring velocity across an industry segment to gauge overall market momentum. When an entire sector is in acceleration mode, it is the right time to launch new products targeting that segment.

  4. 04

    Investment and M&A Intelligence

    Hiring velocity is a leading indicator of company performance. Accelerating hiring often precedes strong earnings, while sustained deceleration may signal strategic challenges.

Measured, Not Estimated

What's actually inside Hiring Velocity Signals

Volumes, subtypes, geography, and join-key fill rates audited directly from our production database, so you can verify coverage before you buy.

Measured coverageaudited from production · minimums, not ceilings
245,382
companies with fresh data / month
basis: 30-day window
294,810
records created / month
basis: 30-day window

Top subtypes

1 total
Velocity1.6M · 100%
🇺🇸United States97K · 23%
🇬🇧United Kingdom20K · 4.9%
🇮🇳India17K · 4.1%
🇩🇪Germany15K · 3.7%
🇨🇦Canada13K · 3.1%
🇫🇷France8.9K · 2.2%
🇧🇷Brazil8.8K · 2.1%
CA 31KNY 18KTX 17KFL 12KIL 8.9KPA 7.7K

Top industries

all industries
Hospitals and Health Care12K · 2.9%
IT Services and IT Consulting11K · 2.7%
Software Development9.7K · 2.3%
Building Construction9.6K · 2.3%
Financial Services7.9K · 1.9%
Retail6.9K · 1.7%
Leasing Real Estate6.7K · 1.6%

Join keys

fill rate
Domain100%
LinkedIn URL97%
Company name100%
Records measured 1,583,350+Companies reached 415,557+Full schema & examples →

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Worked Example

One signal, traced to outcome

One Hiring Velocity Signals record followed from detection, through the action a rep took on it, to the measured result. Illustrative composite of observed customer workflows.

01 signal → 02 action → 03 outcome

01

Signal detected

Anthropic opens 140 roles in 30 days vs. 55 the prior month, a 155% acceleration, with 72% of roles in engineering and research.

02

Action taken

A cloud infrastructure vendor flags Anthropic as a top-priority account:

Your engineering team is scaling at 2.5x pace, with 140 roles in 30 days. Companies at this stage need compute and infrastructure that scales as fast as they hire. Here's how we help.
03

Outcome

Architecture review booked

Because the outreach arrived at the exact moment the team was feeling infrastructure growing pains from rapid hiring.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What are hiring velocity signals?
Hiring velocity signals measure the rate of change in a company's hiring activity across 30, 60, and 90-day windows. Unlike hiring trends that show a snapshot of open roles, velocity tracks whether hiring is accelerating, steady, or decelerating, revealing momentum and urgency that static job counts cannot capture. Coverage spans 50M+ companies.
How does Autobound detect hiring velocity signals?
Autobound tracks job posting counts over rolling 30, 60, and 90-day windows and calculates period-over-period change rates. Companies are classified as accelerating, steady, or decelerating based on configurable thresholds. Department and seniority breakdowns show which parts of the organization are driving the velocity change.
How should I use hiring velocity data in my outreach?
Reference the specific velocity metrics in your outreach. '140 new roles in 30 days' is a concrete data point that shows you have done real research. Target the departments showing the strongest acceleration, and time your outreach to coincide with the steepest part of the hiring curve when teams are feeling the most growing pains.

How It Works

From Raw Data to Your Stack

Autobound ingests from Job boards, LinkedIn profiles, company filings, extracts structured signals with AI, and delivers them however your infrastructure needs.

01

Autobound Ingests

Raw data from Job boards, LinkedIn profiles, company filings is continuously collected and normalized across millions of sources.

02

AI Extracts & Scores

ML models extract 1 signal subtypes with relevance scoring, confidence levels, and entity resolution.

03

You Receive

Structured JSONL delivered via your preferred method, updated on a weekly cadence.

REST API

Real-time access with subtype filtering

300 req/min

GCS Push

Automated delivery to your bucket

JSONL + Parquet

Enrich API

On-demand LLM-ranked insights

AI relevance scoring

Flat File

Bulk exports for data warehouses

CSV, JSON, Parquet
Hiring signals let us identify companies that are actively investing before they even publish an RFP. We reach decision-makers while the budget is still being allocated.

Platform Partner

Head of Data, Enterprise Sales Platform

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